Author response image 1. BUSCO assessments of MAC genomes in representative ciliates.
The three species in the present manuscript are shown in bold. Species with a * are expected to have high BUSCO scores because they were sampled in the BUSCO reference dataset (alveolata_odb10). MAC genomes included here: Euplotes octocarinatus (8), Euplotes vannus (9), Laurentiella sp., Paraurostyla sp., Urostyla sp. (shown to be complete based on the presence of core eukaryotic genes, 7), Halteria grandinella (Zheng et al., Genbank RRYP01000000; https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mBio.01964-20), Paramecium tetraurelia (https://paramecium.i2bc.parissaclay.fr/download/Paramecium/tetraurelia/51/annotations/ptetraurelia_mac_51/), Tetrahymena thermophila (http://ciliate.org/index.php/home/downloads).